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French Verse-Art: A Study

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title French Verse-Art: A Study
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Clive Scott
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreLiterary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780521159173
ClassificationsDewey:841.009 426
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 14 April 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This 1980 book is designed to help university students to master the technicalities and techniques of French verse. The author assumes that part of the difficulty encountered by readers derives from the need to approach French verse through English verse; this book undertakes, therefore, a differentiation of the two verse traditions. Dr Scott's concern is to provide the groundwork of a terminology, to discuss the origins and implications of that terminology, and to show how terminological knowledge can be translated into critical speculation about poetry. After three chapters which establish the essential features of the French line of verse and outline the difficulties the student is likely to encounter in trying to describe it and deal with it, the book moves on to consider rhyme, stanzas, verse forms and free verse.